When it comes to work, is less more? Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous’. In more recent times, organisations from Microsoft to the Wellcome Trust have experimented with a four-day week, and advocates argue that shorter working weeks will solve everything from unemployment to the gender pay gap. Ödül Bozkurt, Brian O’Connor, and Judy Wajcman discuss whether work is making us bad citizens and unhappy humans.
Speakers
• Ö𝗱ü𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝘇𝗸𝘂𝗿𝘁
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Future of Work Hub, University of Sussex
• 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗢’𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗿
Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin
• 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗷𝗰𝗺𝗮𝗻
Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, LSE
Chair
• 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London
Recorded on 6 March 2021as part of the LSE Festival: Shaping the Post-COVID World
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